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J. S. Bach - German Lutheran organist and one of the greatest musical minds in Western music.
Find a quiet five minutes to listen to this video of the great Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita interpreting a work by the great Lutheran German organist J. S. Bach.
"What an engrossing and enriching journey these two concerts proved to be. I felt privileged to have witnessed Yamashita’s remarkable feat, the cumulative power of which is indescribable. Four days later, my head is still filled with glorious Bach bouncing through my head when I least expect it. It’s a wonderful feeling." - Blair Jackson.
Kazuhito Yamashita plays all the Bach pieces for solo violin.
A fantastic video from the master of perspective - Marshall Vandruff. This is the guy I talk about in most classes who teaches perspective with chalk and a blackboard.
This is one of my sketches from a Van Gogh Sunflowers session.
"Sunflowers ?? !! ?? ", I hear you exclaim!
Here is the sketch and the original Van Gogh.
Aha! Hopefully you are saying "aha!" about now.
Can you see that it is an abstract version of the painting? All good painting and drawing is based on abstraction. Our brain interprets the world via abstractions.
So this is a compositional sketch. I am looking for: